An SOC (system on chip) includes many components, such as processors, timers, interrupt controllers, buses, memories, and embedded software. It is a complete system that designers a few years back ...

The increase in complexity of designs being prototyped on FPGAs has led to the increase in need for better debugging techniques. The design being prototyped on the FPGA may be used for performing ...

Advancement of technology has transformed big and complex circuit boards into small and simple Integrated Chips (ICs). ICs have surpassed circuit boards in every field. Be it their small size, lower ...

With IO rates of several hundred megahertz, FPGAs have become an excellent medium for implementation of high-speed memory controllers. Fast memory storage and retrieval often involve implementing DDR ...

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon and Johns Hopkins universities are touting a new method of reliably detecting software bugs in surgical robots and for verifying the software is safe. They plan to ...

Sometimes, in debug mode, you find yourself sitting on a line in a method that you have no interest in. What you actually want to do is to get back out of the method and stop in some method you've ...

Modern multithreaded, asynchronous code can be hard to debug. The complexity that comes with message passing and thread management results in bugs that can seem non-determinant, with little or no way ...

How can we debug method calls that are not part of our own source code, say a call to JButton.setEnabled()? Java provides us with anonymous inner classes, which come in quite handy for this problem.

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